Clothes-hanging device.



J. W. JOHNSHOY.

CLOTHES HANGING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 7. 1911.

1,298,954. Patented Apr. 11919..

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CLOTHES-HANGING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 1, 1919.

Application filed July 7, 1917. Serial No. 179,164.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W J OHNSHOY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tracy, in the county of Lyon and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Hanging Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to clothes lines and contemplates the provision of an improved hanger of this character having means intimately associated therewith in an adjustable manner for clamping clothes pieces to the clothes line.

Another object of the invention is to pro-- vide a plurality of clothes-supporting members, suitably supported between upright standards; said supporting members comprising each a pair of vertically spaced wires, adjustable to or away from each other, through the medium of a spacing member supported therebetween; the lower of said wires carrying a number of clamping hooks for engagement over the upper wire.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the details of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully referred to in the following specification and pointed out in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure l is a perspective of the improved type of clothes hanger contemplated by this invention; and

Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section of the spacing member.

Although the supporting wires of the] clothes line may be attached to any suitable and convenient supports, for the purpose of more clearly describing the invention, a pair of upright vertical standards 1 are shown. Each standard is provided with a base piece 2 and side braces 3, while .across the upper end is carried a cross piece 4:. These standards are placed any desired distance from each other and the clothes lines stretched from the cross-piece of one standard to the cross-piece of the opposite standard.

Extended horizontally between the crosspieces 4 are a plurality of clothes lines 5 formed of upper and lower wires 6 and 7 respectively. The wire 6 is spaced vertically from the lower wire 7 and both wires are joined, in any suitable manner, to the inner faces 8 of the cross-pieces 4at points indicated at 9. As previously stated, a number of clothes lines 5 may be arranged to stretch between the standards 1 and inwardly of the ends 10 and 11 of the crosspieces, so as to adapt the device to the support of a multiplicity of wash-pieces, but when only two lines are necessary, they are, as shown in the drawings, preferably located on opposite sides of the standards and in proximity to the ends 10 and 11 of the respective cross-pieces. Loosely mounted upon the lower Wire 7 of each line are a number of laterally adjustable hooks or clothes-pins 12, comprising a shank having an elarged supported end 13 through which the wire 7 extends and a hooked end 14 for engagement over the upper wire 6.

Arranged between the wires 6 and 7 of each line and at suitable distances from each other, are spacing devices 15,'which include a pair of oppositely threaded bolts 16 having ring-shaped heads 17, through which are passed the wires 6 and 7 as indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The threaded shanks of the bolts are supported inwardly of the spaced wires by internally threaded sleeves 18, projecting from opposite faces of an adjusting nut 19. Upon proper manipulations of the nut, the bolts 16 may be caused to move inwardly of the sleeves 18 or outwardly therefrom, thus narrowing or widening the space between wires 6 and 7, according to the turn given the nut 19.

When using the device, the clothes are hung with one end over the upper wire 6 and the hooks 12 moved upwardly until the hook-ends 14 are clamped over the ends of the cloth-pieces, thus securing them to the line. To insure a tight clamp, the adjusting nut is turned so as to force the upper and lower wires farther apart, with the result that the hooks 12 will be more securely retained in engagement with the clothes suspended from the upper wire.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A hanger including in combination, a support, spaced supporting lines extending from said support, hooks carried by one line and adapted for clamping engagement over the other line, and means for tensioning said lines against said hooks.

2. A hanger including supports equipped v 3. clothes hanger including a pair of support posts, a plurality of clothes lines stretched from one of said support posts to the other, said clothes lines comprising each I a pair of parallel vertically spaced members, clothes hooks carried by one of said spaced members for engagement over the other member, and spacing means disposed between said members for spreading the same after thehooks are in place.

4. A clothes hanger including a plurality of clothes lines consisting each of a pair of parallel Vertically spaced members, hooks, carried by one member for clamping engagement over the other member and means for diminishing and increasing the space be-.- tween sa1d members for securing or releasingsaid hooks, said means comprising a number of threaded eye-bolts carried by each of said clothes line members and arranged in pairs and a controlling'nut between each l as s of said pairs of eye-bolts and engaging the threaded extremities thereof.

5. A clothes hanger including a pair of supports, and a plurality of clothes lines suspended between said supports, each of said clothes lines comprising an upper and a lower member, clothes hooks loosely mounted upon said "lower member and provided with ends bent to hook over said upper member, and shiftable spacing means provided for said upper and lower members which. spacing means may be expanded for tightening or contracted for releasing the grip of said clothes hooks uponsaid upper 35 member.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH W. J OHNSHOY.

Witnesses:

' OSCAR L. JOHNSON, M. A. PETERSON.

' Copiespf this p atent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

